The cells of all vegetation have a very high order of…

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Firsyt of all, it must be realized that only God truly knows about Himself ( ya- rif aqq ma- rifatih) and fully comprehends the…

— al-Ghazâlî

“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as class rule…

— Hannah Arendt

“There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part and parcel…

— J.F.C. Fuller

“Resurrection. In the crude form in which it is preached to console the weak, it is alien to me. I have always understood Christ's…

— Boris Pasternak

“We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent.…

— Susan Griffin

“If you think of our planet as a living, breathing organism, the forests are the lungs. They create a perfect balance to our own…

— Hope Bohanec

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely…

— Leo Tolstoy

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly…

— James Madison

“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to…

— Thomas Hughes

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months…

— Christiaan Barnard

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

— Aristotle